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One of the British nuclear industry’s most costly white elephants is to be put
down because of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, putting 800 jobs at risk.

The Mox reactor fuel plant at Sellafield is being closed after Japanese
nuclear generators scrapped their contracts in the wake of the disaster in
March.

As a result of the closure, Britain will be left with about 13 tonnes of
Japanese plutonium for decades. The plant was supposed to convert the
plutonium into Mox (mixed oxide) fuel to be shipped back to Japan, but
instead it will be kept in storage in the